https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish Major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia. en-us 2017-06-08 19:26:49 UTC 2025-10-03 18:21:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bagshop.png diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175790433 Non rohtic like GB
Intrusive and linking 
/t/ and /d/ sound "flapping" like GA
Vocabulary similar to GB
Exposure/vocabulay/pronunciation
Slang.]]> 2017-06-08 19:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175790433 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175791308 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDb_WsAt_Z0]]> 2017-06-08 19:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175791308 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175792102 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9cIniVl0bg

• "How's your day BIN?"
• "You're going home toDIE."
• "how = heu"
• "butter"
• dark /L/ "coal" - "howl = how"
• high rising terminal or upspeak = australian question intonation
• hipocoristics

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]]> 2017-06-09 03:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175823023 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175823128 Women in England mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792]]> 2017-06-09 03:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175823128 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175823134 One of eleven UNESCO World Heritage-listed Australian Convict Sites.]]> 2017-06-09 03:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175823134 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/175823572

Officially the Commonwealth of Australia, the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

Population of 24 million.

Native speakers: 13.2 million in Australia (2013) // 3.5 million L2 speakers of English in Australia (Crystal 2003)

No official language.

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Commonwealth of Australia

Population: 24,483,100.

Native speakers: 13.2 million in Australia (2013). 

L2 speakers of English: 3.5 million  in Australia (Crystal 2003).

No official language.

]]> 2017-06-26 17:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469693 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469712 Indigenous population: 750,000 - 1,000,000]]> 2017-06-26 17:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469712 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469745 11 ships that founded the first penal colony
Two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports.
Carrying between 1,000 and 1,500 convicts, marines, seamen, civil officers and free people.]]> 2017-06-26 17:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469745 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469933 levelling down
1st spoken by the children of the colonists
Non-english speakers
Recognised as being different from British English by 1820.]]> 2017-06-26 17:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469933 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469975 "No other class of society would use slang more readily or adapt it more expertly to their new environment; no other class would have a better flair for concocting new terms to fit in with their new conditions in life "

"Australians who use these diminutives might be trying to sound less pretentious, more casual and more friendly than they would by using the full words."

"It is the extraordinary intonation that the Australian imparts to his phrases. There is no such thing as cultured, reposeful conversation in this land; everybody sings his remarks as if he was reciting blank verse in the manner of an imperfect elocutionist."]]> 2017-06-26 17:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177469975 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177470016

Non-rhotic

Intrusive /r/

Linking /r/

Flapping /t/ and /d/

Dark /l/

High rising terminal or "upspeak" = "Australian Question Intonation"

Monophthongs and diphthongs.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/RP_English_diphthongs_chart.svg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/RP_English_monophthongs_chart.svg]]> 2017-06-26 17:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177470086 diaz_ipes3 https://padlet.com/diaz_ipes3/AustralianEnglish/wish/177470233 ORIGINS:

• dialects of British English (mate)
• Irish: Gaelic languages  (Sheila-slang for woman)
• Indigenous Australian languages (koala, dingo, kangaroo) 
• Polynesian languages

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Remove the ending.

Add "ie", "a" or "o".

Change vowel ending.

Longer OR shorter.

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